temp directory

Purpose

In rare scenarios, tomcat temporary files located in <AE_HOME>/tomcat/apache-tomcat/temp can consume a lot of disk. This directory contains temporary documents which applications generate during its execution. The application server sometimes fails to delete these documents even after the program execution is finished. This article highlights how to address this issue.

Instructions

It is safe to delete all the content in the <AE_HOME>/tomcat/apache-tomcat/temp directory. The following command when executed as appian user will clear the content in that directory:

rm -R /usr/local/appian/ae/tomcat/apache-tomcat/temp/*

Note: A full site restart will clear the content in that directory but restarting the application server alone will not.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last reviewed: June 2019